Download full text
(502.8Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-66682-1
Exports for your reference manager
Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change: The Case of Regional Parliamentarization
[journal article]
Abstract How and under what conditions does legitimacy affect processes of international institutional change? This article specifies and evaluates three causal mechanisms by which variation in legitimacy induces institutional change in international organizations (IOs) and argues that an important, yet hith... view more
How and under what conditions does legitimacy affect processes of international institutional change? This article specifies and evaluates three causal mechanisms by which variation in legitimacy induces institutional change in international organizations (IOs) and argues that an important, yet hitherto neglected, source of legitimacy-based change is cognitive in nature. Using survival analysis, we evaluate these mechanisms with a novel dataset on the establishment of parliamentary institutions in thirty-six regional organizations between 1950 and 2010. We find that the empowerment of supranational secretariats, engagement with the European Union, and parliamentarization in an organization's neighborhood increase the likelihood of regional parliamentarization. This suggests that legitimacy judgments that draw on cognitive referents provide an important source of international institutional change. We illustrate the underlying cognitive emulation mechanism with a case study of parliamentarization in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.... view less
Keywords
international organization; institution; institutional change; parliament; empowerment; legitimacy; legitimation; ASEAN; supranationality; statistical analysis; case study
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Organizational Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 1094-1107
Journal
International Studies Quarterly, 63 (2019) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqz051
ISSN
0020-8833
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed